Heretofore evacuation of the people of the beseiged city has been obstructed by parties on all sides of the conflict.

RINJ has opposed the plan for “Liberation of Mosul” announced in February 2016 by the Iraqi government and welcomes the delay in this action announced yesterday in Baghdad. (For further information read Mosul Liberation Illusion.)

Relying on the Security Council Resolution 2139 (of 2014) and resolutions 2042 (2012), 2043 (2012) and 2118 (2013), and the Security Council’s Presidential Statements of 3 August 2011, 21 March 2012, 5 April 2012 and 2 October 2013, The RINJ Foundation urges all parties to the conflict in Iraq ad Syria to allow the civilians of Mosul, Iraq and those civilians of the general Nineveh region to leave the area safely to safe havens in United Nations Refugee Camps and that there be a cessation of all hostilities until such time as those camps can be fully created; the evacuation has been accomplished; and all humanitarian concerns have been met

In 2014 the United Nations Security Council demanded that all parties “allow delivery of humanitarian assistance, cease depriving civilians of food and medicine indispensable to their survival, and enable the rapid, safe and unhindered evacuation of all civilians who wished to leave”.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon noted when resolution 2139 first passed on 22 Feb, 2014 that it “should not have been necessary”, as humanitarian assistance “is not something to be negotiated; it is something to be allowed by virtue of international law”.

The RINJ Foundation further urges the UN Security Council to enable by whatever means the capture, arrest and prosecution of any person identifying as a member of the group calling itself The Islamic State for the following crimes against humanity in 2016:

Significant Crimes Against Humanity By The Islamic State in Mosul 2016

Date

Action

Dead

Injured

Details

Jan 1 to May 24

Rape

Thousands

The Islamic State daily rapes by gender-based and by ethnic-based order & decree hundreds of children and dozens or more women.

Feb 8

Execution

300

0

Islamic State have executed over 300 police and army
personal, as well as civil activists by firing squad inMosul.

April 20

Falling

5

0

Islamic Stateexecuted
two of its elements and three civilians by throwing them from the top of a high building in the area of Bab al-Tub in central Mosul

April 21

Shooting

250+

Unknown

At least 250 Iraqi woman were executed by Islamic State fighters because they refused to become sex slaves.

Islamic Statehas
executed 17 people in the city ofMosul, for refusing to fight the Iraqi security forces.

May 5

Shooting

25

0

Islamic Stateexecuted 25
of its fighters, including four leaders, after fleeing from the battlefield.

May 11

Shooting

5

Unknown

Islamic Stateselects five young civilians to take their handguns and shoot five Iraqi soldiers in the head.

May 13

Shooting

5

Unknown

ISIL executed five by firing squad on charges of spying and cooperating
with the security forces.

May 13

Burning

1

1

The Fighters purportedly set the house of a Christianon fire after the resident refused to them Jaziya.

May 16

Stoning

21

Unknown

The so-calledal-Hisba elements arrested a woman and 20 youths on charges of having illegal relations, and put them on the main road in Tahrir neighborhood in front of al-Zahramosque in eastern Mosul. The elements of al-Hisba began stoning the woman and the youths for almost an hour till death.

May 18

Chemical execution

25

Unknown

ISIS terrorist members executed 25 persons in Mosul on charges of spying
and collaborating with Iraqi security forces, ISIS put the citizens in a large tub containing nitric acid inside one of its headquarters. ISIS members tied each person with a rope and lowered him in the tub, which contains nitric acid, till the victims organs dissolve.

The threat to civilians posed by the continuation of the aforementioned alleged crimes (allegedly against all of humanity) is their extinction as a class of people.

The threat to women, children and their families of many ethnic and religious groups is extinction. This cannot continue.

The actions of the parties to the conflicts in the regions once recognized as the nations states of Syria and Iraq include the decimation of whole cities and villages like Kobane, Tikrit, Ramadi and more. This is feared for the cities of Mosul and Fallujah, Iraq (to a lessor extent in Fallujah.)

The wholesale murder of civilians since the commencement of hostilities in 2012 has been the consequence of actions by all actors existing in or invading these regions and the perpetrators will be held accountable not just in the present but by future generations.

It is therefore imperative that the parties to the conflict let the people of Mosul leave and stop besieging civilians as a tactic of war.

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